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- Short: Reminder 6.0 (03-Feb-95)
- Author: eep@sbi.dk
- Uploader: kas@mink.ping.dk
- Type: util/cdity
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- Reminder V6.0
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- Copyright © 1991-95 by Ebbe Holleris Petersen
- Official release of version 6.0
- Release date 3/2-95
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- E-mail: eep@sbi.dk
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- WHAT IS REMINDER?
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- I have a tendency to forget that there is a world around me and that time keeps
- running, when I am working with my A2000 - me and the rest of the world have a
- tendency to get out of sync you might say. I therefore decided to write a small
- commodity that would pop up now and then to remind me of the things I tended to
- forget. The result of this mental exercise I decided to call Reminder.
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- So what does it do? Reminder keeps an eye on a list of messages and commands,
- which the user (you) wants to be shown and/or executed at a specific time or
- time intervals. Any or all of the timeparameters can be wildcards. Once every
- minute the list is checked, and if a match between the systemclock and a time
- specification is found a window will pop up, and the message(s) will be shown
- and/or the command(s) will be executed.
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- Because Reminder is supposed to run as a backgroundprocess, it is designed to
- be memory efficient and use as little CPU time as possible. Should you however
- be the owner of an unexpanded A500, or for any other reason NOT want the
- program to run continuous, it is possible to make it show all messages for
- today at once, and then die (when using this option no commands will be
- executed).
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- Changes from Reminder V5.9 to V6.0 (minor update):
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- · If the selected date in the calendar in the input window is the same as
- the actual date, it will be changed when the actual date changes.
- This is especialy useful for those who's machines are always running.
- If Reminder has been running continously for say 3 days, and the input
- window is opened for the first time, the selected date in the calendar
- will be the actual date, and not the date when Reminder was run.
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- · Reminder no longer attempts to read ENV:TZ once every minute, so you no
- longer need to 'cd RAM:' before running Reminder, as stated below.
- This was pretty anoying when using SnoopDos etc.
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- These changes were suggested by Thomas Jensen and Anders Melchiorsen (ThanX).
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- · added WFLG_NEWLOOKMENUS tag to Reminders clock window, for those running
- V3.x.
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- This was suggested by Martin Wulffeld (ThanX)
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- · Fixed bug: Message and Command gadgets in the input window would only
- accept 64 characters in stead of the 70 resp. 240 they where ment to.
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- ThanX to Mike Krowiak for drawing my attention to this problem.
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- · Day count can now be set to 'RR' (short for ReRun - sorry it was the best
- I could think of). Say you want a program to run from 20.00 to 23.59
- every day. You would then set the 'From' pattern to '20.00 ??/??-????'
- and 'To' pattern to '23.59 ??/??-????' and 'Day count' to '1'. If the
- machine crashes in that periode and reboots the program would not be run
- again, since it already has been run once. This problem is solved by
- setting 'Day count' to 'RR', which instructs Reminder to reset
- 'Day count' to '1' each time Reminder is run (and when pasing midnight).
- · Reminder would not save it's data, unless an old datafile was found.
- Fixed.
- · Tightened up the code a bit.
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- "For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this also we wish,
- even your perfection."
- (2 Corinthians 13:9)
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- ============================= Archive contents =============================
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- 44956 24244 46.0% 03-Mar-95 00:12:52 reminderv6.0/Reminder.68000
- 44240 23852 46.0% 03-Mar-95 00:08:58 reminderv6.0/Reminder.68020+
- 1206 485 59.7% 29-Jan-95 23:18:00 reminderv6.0/Reminder.data
- 27523 10304 62.5% 02-Mar-95 22:35:38 reminderv6.0/Reminder.guide
- 465 224 51.8% 28-Nov-94 21:57:02 reminderv6.0/Reminder.guide.info
- 468 193 58.7% 11-Oct-94 23:56:46 reminderv6.0/Reminder.info
- 11047 4361 60.5% 02-Mar-95 21:54:54 reminderv6.0/Changes
- 459 215 53.1% 28-Nov-94 21:58:02 reminderv6.0/Changes.info
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- 130364 63878 51.0% 14-Mar-95 12:08:44 8 files
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